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Underground Cable Tracing.

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An P.V.C./P.V.C.  cable is run in steel conduit underground from a farm barn to another location. It may run underground to some nearby concrete slabs previously used as a base for wooden sheds, or it may run for about 80 metres to some distant  derelict outbuildings.

I am not too familiar with all of the types of underground cable tracers available.

Which would be the best type of cable tracer to use to determine its run? There may be other buried metal to confuse some tracers. Will a signal injected into the cable be able to be detected by a cable tracer as the cable in inside steel conduit?

The cable is currently dead.

Thanks,

Z.

 

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    @wallywombat it is accepted that when using a cat and genny to survey a site a third of the possible targets may not be detected, such as plastic pipes.

    I do not believe that in the experiment that you referred to with plastic pipes buried in a pit that there is any totally reliable means of detection from above ground without actually digging holes to find out; and in reality dowsing with rods is probably gives the only chance of detecting some buried utilities, how and why I cannot explain, but if it works don’t knock it.

     

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    @wallywombat it is accepted that when using a cat and genny to survey a site a third of the possible targets may not be detected, such as plastic pipes.

    I do not believe that in the experiment that you referred to with plastic pipes buried in a pit that there is any totally reliable means of detection from above ground without actually digging holes to find out; and in reality dowsing with rods is probably gives the only chance of detecting some buried utilities, how and why I cannot explain, but if it works don’t knock it.

     

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